Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Change date time Linux

In order to manually change the timezone, you can edit
the /etc/sysconfig/clockfile and then make a new
soft link to /etc/localtime. Here is an
example of changing the timezone manually to "America/Denver":

1. Select the appropriate time zone from the /usr/share/zoneinfo directory. Time zone names
are relative to that directory. In this case, we will select "America/Denver"

2. Edit the /etc/sysconfig/clocktext file so that it looks
like this:

ZONE="America/Denver"
UTC=true
ARC=false

Of course, this assumes that your
hardware clock is running UTC time...

3. Delete
the following file: /etc/localtime

4. Create a new soft link for /etc/localtime.
Here is an example of step 3 and step 4: